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Linking Tips

Let's also look at a couple of linking tips to make your Web site better:

  1. There is no need to include the filename "index.html" in your links. Remember that the Web server automatically looks for the file "index.html" as the default file for any folder.

    http://www.bu.edu/webcentral/index.html

    works like

    http://www.bu.edu/webcentral/

  2. Use a slash / at the end of your URL unless you are linking to a specific HTML document. A slash at the end of a link address lets the server know you are looking for the "index.html" file located in the folder named in the address. If you don't include the slash, the server will first look for a file by the name specified. After it doesn't find a file by that name, it will look for a directory.

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